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Playing football is an extremely dangerous activity, and it is not just about injuries.
Ah, you don’t believe it? Do you consider an exaggeration?
Then the champion will tell you about the amazing events that happened to one of the biggest talents in the history of the game – Alfredo Di Stefano.
***
– I listen to you.
– Are you a senior di Stefano?- Yes. Speak.
– Here came the police, they want to ask you some questions, ask you to go down.
Don Alfredo did not respond to concierge at first, because he thought that these were partners on Real Madrid.
It was light outside, and although they lived in Karakas for a week, his head was sore from local humidity. At the age of 37, Di Stefano was still the most famous football player in the world, the winner of five cups of champions, but physiology did not turn over, and the body passed gradually. Out -of -point said it was his last season for Madrid.
Suddenly, they knocked on the door.
So it wasn’t a joke?
Opening, Di Stefano saw a hotel worker and three police officers who had groaned something about “drug checking”.
“Wait. Let’s first let the trainer know,” Jose Emilio Santamari called from the other end.
Alfredo, however, did not listen.
He was in a bad humor and wanted to end it as soon as possible. He went down in the police company, but they led it not to the first floor, but immediately to the parking lot. On the way under the edge of the stars of football, the gun burst and ordered not to be cried. Such are the hoops.
Di Stefano closed their eyes with a bandage and put on dark glasses before the car moved.
One stop and transplant, then again and again – so the traces were sweeping.
Only at about 1:00 pm he finally unleashed his eyes in some apartment, where he was full of paintings – ready and not yet home.
At the same time a spokesman for the military forces of Venezuela (Faln) handed over newsmanamthat “Di Stefano in them, but they will not cause harm and release as soon as history becomes sufficiently public.”
Outside was August 24, 1963.
***
Why did he come to this hole at all?
Well, first of all at that time Venezuela was still considered a young democracy, where the elections, private property were revered.
In 1952, local oil magnates became the first to come up with the “World Cup”-they called it “Mundialito” and called the best clubs in Europe and South America. Real Madrid was here constantly and won the trophy twice-in 1952 and 1956.
Europe did not know that after the victory of the Revolution, Fidel Castro in the Cuba Venezuela was also protected.
In 1959, her President Romau Betancour forbade the Communist Party from sin, but did not help-and went underground, gained volunteers. It was hot in some places.
In 1963, the Venezulians still assured the delegations of Real Madrid, Port and San Paulo, which was under control, but in fact the authorities could no longer give such guarantees.
Di Stefano’s abduction greatly shed light on all this.
Well, it was as surprised too.
In the room around the captured Alfredo sat nine men who did not hide their faces and were surprisingly kind. They offered him chess, dominoes, hoodgi, gas, even Paelle was prepared – well, where did it be seen?!
“In fact, they treated me well, but I couldn’t calm down. I only thought of escape. Thank God I didn’t do it,” the football player recalled.
Meanwhile, the press stood on the ears, and in the center of all was the correspondent of Spanish Marca In Karakas Lasaro Candal, whose wife is by chance! – worked in a hairdresser’s hotel, where Di Stefano was stolen, and her brother sold a cake in a pastry shop opposite.
“No one can neither go nor go. I am scared, the hairdresser is ordered not to leave. The police everywhere,” the woman wandered to her husband.
When she was finally released, she ran straight to her brother, where her story knocked down one of the bakers:
“Lord, it’s a paulito.”
***
Paulito – aka Paul del Rio, he was Maximo Kanyaz – in his 19 years headed one of the cells Faln But dreamed of the world socialist revolution.
The man who grabbed his heart was his father.
He also supported the Communists-so he fled from Spain in 1938 after the victory of Francisco Franco. However, the old man who survived the war was very afraid of violence, and most of all – that his son would kill.
Well, the police would have done so, but Del Rio, though a dreamer, really hid a conspiratorial apartment.
In the afternoon, Di Stefano came down left intectuals – someone to chat, someone to shake his hand, because after the speeches for River Plete and Millionarios, he was scary popular in this part of the world.
In the evening, when Real was supposed to play from the port, the kidnappers were also attracted to the radio so that he could listen to the report.
No violence.
This would be reminiscent of anecdote if it were not for the guards at the door and windows with Thompson-machine guns in their hands-in case the police still find them.
“You have to let me go. My parents have heart problems, they die,” Di Stefano said.
“Don’t worry. Nothing will happen to you. We just want the world to recognize us and find out who we are. Our country is exploiting big states in oil business,” Paul replied.
He didn’t lie. Betankur’s tactics in the fight against the Communists was full of silence Faln, As if they did not exist. The revolutionaries, on the contrary, sought publicity, so next to Di Stefano stood a photographer who shot everything – fighters, their flags, hostage and how he play chess with del Rio.
Di Stefano was seized because he was the most famous of Real – so he guaranteed the greatest resonance.
Del Rio even told a shocked star that he initially planned to steal the composer Igor Stravinsky, who was in Karakas with a concert, but changed his mind, “because the old health problem.”
***
In these conversations, they spent three days, and Di Stefano did not calm down for a moment.
He decided that once he was told so many secrets, so he was definitely not planned to leave alive.
But Del Rio was not a killer.
Closer to lunch on August 26, Don Alfredo began to “cook” for freedom. He was changed his clothes, and they wanted to thaw, but he broke out – they say, hair and so almost no. Then the kidnappers drank a cowboy hat on him.
At 2:00 pm local time the car landed the football player directly in the middle of the road – he was even given cash on a taxi to reach the Spanish embassy.
He began to flee – he thought that they would shoot up, but the revolutionaries went away peacefully.
The embassy was almost nearby – it was possible to walk on foot.
Already there on the door of Alfredo read that it was running until 14:00, and on the clock was 14:10, but he was stunning for so long and stubbornly on the door that the security guard came out. He almost wrapped when he saw who before him.
Immediately, reporters, politicians, police – all They were waiting for Di Stefano, but he only rushed to call his wife Sari and the children who remained in Madrid.
“These three days were for me for three years,” is all that was pulled out of it.
He never forgave Santiago Bernabeu for the fact that the President of Real was just laughing, they say, they would have released me faster because of a stupid character, and ordered the next day to play against San Paulo, although neither morally nor physically Alfredo was ready.
He issued, by his own confession, “the worst game in life”, the scoreboard was burning 0-0, and the trophy was raised by the Brazilians.
And it is indifferent.
***
Already in the 1980s, Di Stefano recalled that among the police officers, whom he met at a makeshift press conference on the day of liberation, were those who looked at the apartment in Del Rio.
He did not give them.
In the 1980s, Paul gave his “victim” one of his own paintings, which Don Alfredo even hung at home. Intelligent athlete, he loved painting, literature.
Did he know about Del Rio’s further fate? Well, maybe.
Inspired by “success” with Di Stefano, he soon seized Anzoátegui’s cargo ship, and a year later stole and also released the military attaché of the US Embassy Michael Smolelen.
It was not until 1971 that Paul managed to arrest and plant, after which he gave up and devoted himself to drawing and sculpture. Over time, Del Rio became a prominent authority, fulfilled the order of OPEC oil cartel and different left governments.
One is unclear – who thought of inviting him to the premiere of a documentary Real, The Movie In 2005?
The concept is obvious-a movie handful of former enemies, peace, friendship, applause. But in real life it is not so easy. Noticing Del Rio, Di Stefano stopped and became serious:
“You made my family feel a lot of fear. We have nothing to talk about.”
The cinema did not work.
Only closer to death in 2014 Don Alfredo softened a little about those events:
“You know, I forgive them. They were very strange. They were altruists, people with some ideals. I have a picture at home – he sent it to somehow redeem wine.”
Well, and a year after the legend of football, died and del Rio – he shot from his rifle into his heart, looking at finally, to which poverty, repression and wicked darkness he proved Venezuela by his socialism.
”, – WRITE: Champion.com.ua
Playing football is an extremely dangerous activity, and it is not just about injuries.
Ah, you don’t believe it? Do you consider an exaggeration?
Then the champion will tell you about the amazing events that happened to one of the biggest talents in the history of the game – Alfredo Di Stefano.
***
– I listen to you.
– Are you a senior di Stefano?- Yes. Speak.
– Here came the police, they want to ask you some questions, ask you to go down.
Don Alfredo did not respond to concierge at first, because he thought that these were partners on Real Madrid.
It was light outside, and although they lived in Karakas for a week, his head was sore from local humidity. At the age of 37, Di Stefano was still the most famous football player in the world, the winner of five cups of champions, but physiology did not turn over, and the body passed gradually. Out -of -point said it was his last season for Madrid.
Suddenly, they knocked on the door.
So it wasn’t a joke?
Opening, Di Stefano saw a hotel worker and three police officers who had groaned something about “drug checking”.
“Wait. Let’s first let the trainer know,” Jose Emilio Santamari called from the other end.
Alfredo, however, did not listen.
He was in a bad humor and wanted to end it as soon as possible. He went down in the police company, but they led it not to the first floor, but immediately to the parking lot. On the way under the edge of the stars of football, the gun burst and ordered not to be cried. Such are the hoops.
Di Stefano closed their eyes with a bandage and put on dark glasses before the car moved.
One stop and transplant, then again and again – so the traces were sweeping.
Only at about 1:00 pm he finally unleashed his eyes in some apartment, where he was full of paintings – ready and not yet home.
At the same time a spokesman for the military forces of Venezuela (Faln) handed over newsmanamthat “Di Stefano in them, but they will not cause harm and release as soon as history becomes sufficiently public.”
Outside was August 24, 1963.
***
Why did he come to this hole at all?
Well, first of all at that time Venezuela was still considered a young democracy, where the elections, private property were revered.
In 1952, local oil magnates became the first to come up with the “World Cup”-they called it “Mundialito” and called the best clubs in Europe and South America. Real Madrid was here constantly and won the trophy twice-in 1952 and 1956.
Europe did not know that after the victory of the Revolution, Fidel Castro in the Cuba Venezuela was also protected.
In 1959, her President Romau Betancour forbade the Communist Party from sin, but did not help-and went underground, gained volunteers. It was hot in some places.
In 1963, the Venezulians still assured the delegations of Real Madrid, Port and San Paulo, which was under control, but in fact the authorities could no longer give such guarantees.
Di Stefano’s abduction greatly shed light on all this.
Well, it was as surprised too.
In the room around the captured Alfredo sat nine men who did not hide their faces and were surprisingly kind. They offered him chess, dominoes, hoodgi, gas, even Paelle was prepared – well, where did it be seen?!
“In fact, they treated me well, but I couldn’t calm down. I only thought of escape. Thank God I didn’t do it,” the football player recalled.
Meanwhile, the press stood on the ears, and in the center of all was the correspondent of Spanish Marca In Karakas Lasaro Candal, whose wife is by chance! – worked in a hairdresser’s hotel, where Di Stefano was stolen, and her brother sold a cake in a pastry shop opposite.
“No one can neither go nor go. I am scared, the hairdresser is ordered not to leave. The police everywhere,” the woman wandered to her husband.
When she was finally released, she ran straight to her brother, where her story knocked down one of the bakers:
“Lord, it’s a paulito.”
***
Paulito – aka Paul del Rio, he was Maximo Kanyaz – in his 19 years headed one of the cells Faln But dreamed of the world socialist revolution.
The man who grabbed his heart was his father.
He also supported the Communists-so he fled from Spain in 1938 after the victory of Francisco Franco. However, the old man who survived the war was very afraid of violence, and most of all – that his son would kill.
Well, the police would have done so, but Del Rio, though a dreamer, really hid a conspiratorial apartment.
In the afternoon to di Stefano came down left intectuals – someone to chat, someone n To clap his hand, because after the speeches for River Plet and Millionarios, he was scary popular in this part of the world.
In the evening, when Real was supposed to play from the port, the kidnappers were also attracted to the radio so that he could listen to the report.
No violence.
This would be reminiscent of anecdote if it were not for the guards at the door and windows with Thompson-machine guns in their hands-in case the police still find them.
“You have to let me go. My parents have heart problems, they die,” Di Stefano said.
“Don’t worry. Nothing will happen to you. We just want the world to recognize us and find out who we are. Our country is exploiting big states in oil business,” Paul replied.
He didn’t lie. Betankur’s tactics in the fight against the Communists was full of silence Faln, As if they did not exist. The revolutionaries, on the contrary, sought publicity, so next to Di Stefano stood a photographer who shot everything – fighters, their flags, hostage and how he play chess with del Rio.
Di Stefano was seized because he was the most famous of Real – so he guaranteed the greatest resonance.
Del Rio even told a shocked star that he initially planned to steal the composer Igor Stravinsky, who was in Karakas with a concert, but changed his mind, “because the old health problem.”
***
In these conversations, they spent three days, and Di Stefano did not calm down for a moment.
He decided that once he was told so many secrets, so he was definitely not planned to leave alive.
But Del Rio was not a killer.
Closer to lunch on August 26, Don Alfredo began to “cook” for freedom. He was changed his clothes, and they wanted to thaw, but he broke out – they say, hair and so almost no. Then the kidnappers drank a cowboy hat on him.
At 2:00 pm local time the car landed the football player directly in the middle of the road – he was even given cash on a taxi to reach the Spanish embassy.
He began to flee – he thought that they would shoot up, but the revolutionaries went away peacefully.
The embassy was almost nearby – it was possible to walk on foot.
Already there on the door of Alfredo read that it was running until 14:00, and on the clock was 14:10, but he was stunning for so long and stubbornly on the door that the security guard came out. He almost wrapped when he saw who before him.
Reporters, politicians, and police – everyone was waiting for Di Stefano, but he just torn to call Sarah’s wife and children who remained in Madrid.
“These three days were for me for three years,” is all that was pulled out of it.
He never forgave Santiago Bernabeu for the fact that the President of Real was just laughing, they say, they would have released me faster because of a stupid character, and ordered the next day to play against San Paulo, although neither morally nor physically Alfredo was ready.
He issued, by his own confession, “the worst game in life”, the scoreboard was burning 0-0, and the trophy was raised by the Brazilians.
And it is indifferent.
***
Already in the 1980s, Di Stefano recalled that among the police officers, whom he met at a makeshift press conference on the day of liberation, were those who looked at the apartment in Del Rio.
He did not give them.
In the 1980s, Paul gave his “victim” one of his own paintings, which Don Alfredo even hung at home. Intelligent athlete, he loved painting, literature.
Did he know about Del Rio’s further fate? Well, maybe.
Inspired by “success” with Di Stefano, he soon seized Anzoátegui’s cargo ship, and a year later stole and also released the military attaché of the US Embassy Michael Smolelen.
It was not until 1971 that Paul managed to arrest and plant, after which he gave up and devoted himself to drawing and sculpture. Over time, Del Rio became a prominent authority, fulfilled the order of OPEC oil cartel and different left governments.
One is unclear – who thought of inviting him to the premiere of a documentary Real, The Movie In 2005?
The concept is obvious-a movie handful of former enemies, peace, friendship, applause. But in real life it is not so easy. Noticing Del Rio, Di Stefano stopped and became serious:
“You made my family feel a lot of fear. We have nothing to talk about.”
The cinema did not work.
Only closer to death in 2014 Don Alfredo softened a little about those events:
“You know, I forgive them. They were very strange. They were altruists, people with some ideals. I have a picture at home – he sent it to somehow redeem wine.”
Well, and a year after the legend of football, died and del Rio – he shot from his rifle into his heart, looking at finally, to which poverty, repression and wicked darkness he proved Venezuela by his socialism.